Organizations, sites and people involved in x-risks prevention

AI risks General x-risks NuclearGlobal

warming Bio-risksSize and level of influence

MIRI(Former Singularity insti-

tute)E.Yudkowsky

link

FHIFuture of humanity institute

Oxford, linkNick Bostrom

CSERCambridge center of existential risks

Martin Rees, link

FLIFuture of life institute

Elon Musklink

GCRIGlobal catastrophic risks

institute,Seth Baum

Interesting newsletter, many articles in scientific journals

link

X-risks institute

Phil Torrres

Interesting articles by its main author, focus on exis-

tential terrorism and religionlink

ConvergenceJustin Shovelain

Collective think tank concentrat-ed on mathematical modeling of

x-risks link

Lifeboat foundation

Very large scientific boards which don’t actually do anything, but some useful discussion is going in its mail listsite

mail list - good one

X-risks on

RedditExistentiarisk

Control problem

Willard Wells

Author of “Apoc-alypses when”and prevention

plan

Bulletin of atomic

scientistsFamous doomsday

clocklink

Arctic newsSam Carana

Irreversible global warming because of methane hydrates

eruptionlink

World Health Organization

(WHO)

includes a division called the Global Alert and Response (GAR) which mon-itors and responds to global epidemic crisis. GAR helps member states with

training and coordination of response to epidemics. link

Global challenges

Laszlo SzombatfalvyThe Global Challenges Foundation works to raise awareness of the Global Catastrophic Risks. Primari-ly focused on climate change, other environmental degradation and po-litically motivated violence as well as how these threats are linked to poverty and rapid population growth, link

Known very well

and large amount of work

is done

Large and interest-

ing research has been cre-ated, but not much people knows them

Open places for

discussion

Longecitysubforum

link

Foundational research institute

“Currently, our research focus-es on reducing risks of dysto-pian futures in the context of emerging technologies”.Interesting work on AI safety

link

Club of RomeStill exist!

Were famous in 1970s when they pro-duced “Limits of growth” Link

CISAC“The Center for Internation-al Security and Cooperation is Stanford University’s hub for re-searchers tackling some of the world’s most pressing securi-ty and international cooperation problems”Nuclear, cybersecurity, bio, anti-terrorism, link

EAEffective altruism

EA forum

Facebook• Existential risks (Adam Ford)• Global Catastrophic Risks Re-search and Discussion (Evan Gaensbauer)

• Global catastrophic risks• Stop existential risks

Nuclear threat initia-

tive link

Saving Humanity

from Homo SapiensSmall one person organisation

without any actual worklink

Jaan Tallinn

investor in x-re-lated

projects, wiki

Skoll Global Threats Fund

“To safeguard humanity from global threats” Climate, water security, pandem-ics, nuclear proliferation, link

StimsonCenter

“The Stimson Center is a nonpartisan policy research center working to solve the world’s greatest threats to security and prosperity”.non-prolifiration

link

Investors and important

figures

Peter Thiel

Invested in MIRI

Elon MuskWant AI safety through Open AI and human on Mars as a

backup plan

Scientists and re-

searchers

Less-wrong

Adrian Kent

LHC risks

Tobi Ord

site“existential

hope”

Impact risks

Robin Hanson

BlogSocietal collapse

risks

Katja Grace

Fermi paradox and DA

blogAI impacts

A. Sandberg

Participated in FHI and co-au-thored papers

R. Freitas

Nanotech risks

Ploughshares Fund

“Supports the smartest minds and most effective or-ganizations to reduce nucle-ar stockpiles, prevent new nuclear states, and increase global security”

Link

David Denkenbergeragricultural risks

Alexander KononovCoined term

”indestructibility of civilization”

Milan CircovicStevenson probe,Anthropic shadow

Fermi paradoxSite

Bruce TonnEditor and writer

link

Large group of people working on AI safety,

including, but not limited to:Steve OmohundroLuke MuehlhauserStuart ArmstrongRoman Yampolsky

Nate SoaresVladimir Nesov

Kaj SotalaBenja FallensteinRiva Melissa Tez

Jason Gaverick Matheny, wikiAndrew Critch, blog

Paul ChristianoKarl ShulmanAnna Salamon

Bill Gates

Has its own foun-dation and vision of global risks

flutrackers.comForum about risks of flu pandemic

OpenAIElon Musk

wiki

Stephen Hawking

Warned about risks of aliens and AI

Dennis Medows

Resource depletion risks

David Brin

writer,“Existence”

Vernor Vinge

writer, created Singularity idea

Writers

IPCCInternational

panel of climate change

Zoltvan Istavn

Presidential candidate from transhumanist party

Wrote about x-risks

Greg Igenwriter

“Permutation city”

Leveraged research

the site is almost empty nowlink

Global Priori-ties Project

Created Global catastrophic risk report-2016Collaborate with UK govern-ment Dr. Toby Ord is memberConnected with EA movement

link

X-risks net

Alexei TurchinCreating full database on

x-risks and prevention plan

link

Wiki-resources

LW-wiki

Nano risks

Foresightinstitute

link

Holocen impact working

groupEstimate risks of recent impacts

link

Diffusing nuclear threat

link

Norvegian transhumanists

Oxford Martin Programme

on the Impacts of Future Technology, link

NASAlink

The United States Agency for Interna-tional Development

(USAID) has its Emerging Pandemic Threats Program which aims to prevent and

contain naturally generated pandemics at their source.[129]

The Lawrence Livermore National

Laboratory has a division called the Global Secu-rity Principal Directorate which re-searches on behalf of the government

issues such as bio-security, counter-ter-rorism, etc. Link

Public figures

John Barnes

“Mother of strorms”

Aaron Dar

Risks of supernovas

Bill Napier

Risks of dark comets

Sam AltmanY combinator,Confounded

Open AI

R.Carrigan

Risks of SETI

Bill JoyWrote famous arti-

cle but now seems to lost interest

Max TegmarkWrote articles together

with Bostrom

EA forumlink

Intelligent agents forumTechnical discussion

on AI safetylink

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